The Flyers traded a top-6 winger for an inferior player today. No way around that. Scott Hartnell is better at hockey than R.J. Umberger, and the Flyers will not be able to replace Hartnell’s production with Umberger, even if they say otherwise. But there are bright sides to this trade. We still disagree with it,…
The Philadelphia Flyers have their roster set ahead of Thursday night’s season opener, but elsewhere in the organization, things are still up in the air. So let’s run through the minor league rosters — both in the AHL with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms and in the ECHL with the Reading Royals — and see where…
They can’t get a save, they can’t score a goal, and that’s not a great formula. How should Chucky 2Trades approach the rest of the season? How can a lost season be salvaged? Plus, what are the gang’s worst take from 2018? It’s the first BSH Radio of 2019, and just like our favorite hockey…
We’re into the second month of this young NHL season and evidently this is when things start getting weird. The gang discusses early season coaching changes, whether the St. Louis Blues really are this bad, and of course, the never-ending saga of the Ottawa Senators, which somehow now includes an Uber chapter.
To recap everything that’s gone on in free agency so far, first from the Flyers’ end: From Thursday: Claude Giroux locked up long-term. Eight years, $66.2 million beginning in 2014. Also from Thursday: Adam Hall locked up short-term. One year, $600,000. From Friday: Ray Emery is your second goalie. One year, $1.65 million. Also from…
*The Panthers are in town tonight. You going to the game? No? Me neither. Anyway, Egor Zamula will draw in tonight, that’s fun. [BSH] *Danny Briere’s son has, rightfully, found himself in a bit of trouble. He’s moved on to the “find out” stage as they say. [Inquirer] *So it kinda feels like John Tortorella…
We don’t want to get into those, like, wrestling match. We want to stay, um, like we wanna keep like playing our system and our game. And we know we’re not a team that runs around and like, search for little battles or little wrestling. We’re just like, stay composed and just play our game….
I absolutely refuse to put “Nikolay” in a headline, so we’re just going with Nik there. But why is Nikolay Zherdev’s name even in a headline? After all, he’s kind of an after-thought on this team, isn’t he? He’s on the fourth line, he refuses to talk to the local media, and when a guy…
Full disclosure, I may nodded off at various points in this game. The scouting report on the Canes is “solid, defensive team” which is usually code for boring and uneventful hockey. They more than lived up to that billing keeping the Flyers to just nine scoring chances at evens. That being said, the Hurricanes didn’t…
It didn’t look good early, and it didn’t look good more than midway through today’s game at the Wells Fargo Center, but the Flyers used three power play goals to come-from-behind and take a 5-3 win from the Winnipeg Jets. It’s a much-needed victory for a team trying to use this five-game homestand as a…